Method or process of making mosaics



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FiledMaych 9, 1952 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inventor Patented Mar. 12, 1935 at tac v Memo!) on PROCESS or MAKING i MosAros Thomas Walls, Waynesville, N C. Appiaaan March 9, 1932, Serial No. 597,857

2 Claims. (01. 144-409) My invention relates to a method or process of making mosaic articles and forms used in the construction thereof.

It is an important object of my invention to provide a method or process for constructing mosaic articles and forms used in the construction of the same, whichis simplified in character, saves considerable time and labor, and produces forms and articles of superior accuracy and uniformity at low cost. V

It is also an object of my invention to provide a method or process of the type described which enables thesimultaneous forming or forms and articles of the type described, from materials or" difiering and contrasting character and appearance, so that the articles of which they areconstructed may have a scheme of variegated construction and decoration.

It is also an important object of my invention to provide a'method or process of the type described for producing diamond-shaped forms and articles constructed therefrom, which forms and articles may be associated and inter-related in an unlimited number of ways so as to' produce difierent constructions having appearances partaking of the character of mosaic.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will be apparent from a reading of the following description in connection with the drawings, wherein for purposes of illustration I have shown apreferred embodiment of the invention.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a stick or piece of lumber.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a board or plate formed by gluing or otherwise attaching in side by side relationship a plurality of the sticks illustrated in Figure 1.

. Figure 3 is a perspective view ofarectangular block produced by assembling together a plurality of the boards illustrated in Figure '2.

Figure 4 is a perspective view similar to Figure 3 showing the method and angle of making a cut through the cube or block to produce the diamond-shaped mosaic bodies.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of a mosaic body resulting from the making of the cut indi- 'cated in Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a plan view of a portion of an article illustrating the diamond shape of the mosaic of one'of the -mosaic plates out from the mosaic body shown in Figure 5.

Figure '7 is a perspective view of one of the single diamond forms resulting from separation thereof one from the other.

Figure 8 is a sectional view taken on the line 8-8 of Figure. 6 illustrating the composition of one of the mosaic plates cut from the body shown in Figure'5.

In the drawings, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout the same, the numeral 5 generally designates one of the sticks or timbers. Apworkable and convenient size for certainpurposes is a stick about three feet long and seven-'- eighths of an inchin width and thickness. A plurality of the sticks 5 may be glued in side by side relationship as indicated at 6 to form a board I generally designated '7. A suitable and convenient size for the board is about 2 0 inches in width. These boards 7 are then cut transversely into three pieces each of a size of about twelve by twenty inches as illustrated in Figure 2.

Then. a number of the boards 7 are glued to g gether into ablock'or cube approximatelytwelve by sixteen by twenty inches as indicated in Figures 3 and 4.

The block designated by the numeral 8 is then turned upon its end as shown in Figure 4 and cut through as indicated at 9 in a plane which is at an angle of about 22 degrees to a plane passing through the points a and b parallel to the edge 0. The cut 9 results in a pair of blocks 10 one of'which is illustrated in Figure 5. These blocks 10 are of themselves ornamentaland may be used as ornaments, or. they may be further reduced by cuts 11, 12, so as to produce mosaic plates 13 shown in Figures 6 and 8, from which plates 13 diamond forms 14 illustrated in Figure 7 may be secured by disruption of the gluing 6. I

It will be obvious that when the sticks 5 are alternated in color and quality and texture, that a variegated decorative effect or checker-Work appearance may be obtained to enable making up an endless variety of decorative schemes, for producing articles-of novel forms and decorative effects.

scribed herein to the, particular forms and articles described and set forth for purposes of illustration, and this application is specifically limited to the method or process of constructing or making and producing the diamond mosaic forms.

Though I have shown and described herein a preferred embodiment of the method or process of the invention, it is to be definitely understood that I do not desire to limit the application of the invention thereto, but any change or changes may be made in material and structure and arrangement of parts, and in the sequence and character of the steps of the process or method, within the spirit of the invention and the scope of the subjoined claims.

What is claimed is: 7

1. A method of making mosaic forms and articles, said method comprising securing together a plurality of elongated bodies of rectangular cross section to form boards, then securing t0- gether a plurality of the boards to form a rectangular block, then sawing through one end of the 'block and longitudinally in spaced parallel planes lying at an' angle to the plane of the board so as to cut through the ends of the elongated bodies, the cuts being initially madeg through two adjacent sides only of the said elongated bodies.

2. The method of making mosaic articles which] J. comprises securing together in side .by side relationship pluralities of elongated blocks 'of'sub- .stantially square cross section to vform boards,

then superposing a plurality of said boards with the elongated blocks thereof aligned and securing; V r

, 10 then sawing at an angle of 22 degrees to the plane 1 V of a board and invspaced parallel planesac'rossv 7 said boards together to iorm a rectangular body,

one end and longitudinally throughthe body so as to cut through the ends of'the elongated blocks V the cutsbeing initiallymade through two adjacent sides only of some of the said elongated blocks thereby producing plates composed of diamond forms.

THOMAS J. WALLS 

